The Penn's Grove record., 1887-04-02

OF November and December, 1886, and
January and February, 1887, was H..
645. 740 pounds, and the quantity ex-
ported from the United States during
the same period was 1872, 1877 pounds.
The figures are taken from a state
mont prepared in the Internal Revenue
Bureau.
Two cars of a train on the iron
Mountain Railroad were thrown from
the track by a broken rail and capsized
at Hillard, Missouri. on the 18th.
Several passengers were seriously in
jured' and a child in its mothers arms
was killed. Two freight trains on the
Canadian Pacific Railroad ran into
each other at Franktown on the morn
ing of the 9th and both were wrecked.
The loss to the company is 100000
The iron manufacturers of Pitts.
burg are quoted as saying that the card
rate OF iron twill hardly go any higher
than it Is at present, as representatives
of Swedish and English iron firms have
recently invaded Pittsburg and are
making desperate efforts to place orders
for foreign IRON" 1t is reported that
the iron business is not as good as it
was a few weeks ago. Pig iron has
declined fifty cents a ton during the
past month and muck bar 81 so.
1t is announced that the Jersey
Central Railroad has made a contract
with the Clear6eld Coal Company for
handling its coal. This will involve
the building of a new dock at Commu.
nlpaw that will cost about $500, 900,
the contracts for which have already
been given.
"A telegram from Galveston says
the Southern Pacific Railway Com
pany Is dicharging all its baggage
masters and imposing their duties on
express messengers. This Is said to be
owing to the Interstate Commerce
law. A telegram from Pittsburg says
the entire force of clerks in the trans
fer station OF the PENNSYLVANIA Rail
road, in that city, have been notified
that after the present months business
is finished their services will be no
longer required. Nearly one hundred
men. receiving salaries from $50 to
SIPS per month, will be thrown ont OF
employment by the abandonment OF
the station, which is believed to be one
of the first visible effects of the pas.
sage of the Inter State Commerce bill.
1.-THE Interstate bill will materially cut
down the profit ON short hauls, and it
is to this fact, probably, that the pres.
| ent mov is due, although the company
has Deen contemplating either the re-
moval or Abandonment of the transfer
station for some years past. 1t is GER
| tain, however, that matters have been
fastened by the passage of the bill.
| Among those who will be thrown out
of employment are a number of men
who have been in the employ of the
railroad for a score of years, and who
have grown gray in the service"
"A fight took place between cow
bows and shepherds near Grants
| Station, Arizona, a few DAYS ago, in
which one of the herders was killed
and three other herders and a COW
boy were wounded. One of the
| wounded has since died. Ephraim
Schlogerman, a peddler, was shot and
| dan !erously wounded neal Ephrata,
| Penna., on the 28th, by Charles Barn
hart, a cigar maker. Barnhart and
several companions were annoying
Schlogerman. and when the latter
| started to run away the scoundrel
| shot him in the back. Benjamin
Mobbs was found hanging in his room
in Hazen, Arkansas, on the Goth, and
| it was thought he had committed sui
eide. 1t now turns out that be was
| strung up unti, dead, and robbed. The
| murderers are not known.
"A telegram from Defiance, Ohio,
says that a few nights ago the Cecil
aqueduct on the canal was blown
open. The next night armed men
drove away the guards who were
watching the reservoir and blew out
the banks IN two places, and finally
| dynamite was used to destroy the
locks. 1t will take half the summer to
repair the damage already done. A
| strong effort Was recently made to ln-
duce the Legislature to vacate the
canal at that point.
The dwelling of Matthew Massick.
at Ludlowville, New York. was
burned on the morning of the Goth, and
| three children persisted in the flames.
The Caswell building, in Troy, New
York, occupied by Fessenden, Lam
bert and Tower, dry goods dealers, and
other firms, was destroyed by fire, on
| the ooh. The Fulton street front of
the Boardman building was damaged.
The total loss is estimated at Sl30,000.
which is covered by insurance. The
| tremen say the flames IN the Casweli
building burst out in several places at
| once. The West Point Cotton Mills,
neal West Point, Georgia. were burned
on the 2Sth, with a grist mill adjoin-
ing. The picker room and warehouse,
| with 1000 bales of otton, were saved.
| The loss is probably covered by an In
sursnce of 100000 A fire in Column
bus, Georgia. n the morning of the 10Th,
| destroyed the shoe store of w. X.
| Bedell and the clothing store of j.. X.
Harris & Co. Loss, 500, 600; insurance.
ST., 00J.
There was a hard frost. with ice,
in the districts around Norfolk and
Danville, Virginia, on the night Of the
18th. II is feared tina much damage
| has been done 10 early fruits and veg
etables. A terrible storm of hail and
wind visited Ackworth, Ga, on the
18th. Two dwellings were demolished.
A telegram from New Brunswick,
New Jersey, says the Pennsylvania
Railroad has been running local pas
senger traffic between that city and
jersey City for the past few days in
cars heated 10y steam from the locomo-
tive, and it has been found feasible, to
heat a limited number of cars by this
means aud maintain a sufficiently high
temperature.
The First National Bank of Pitts
burg. Penna., aas on the Goth author
Ized to begin business with a capital Of
Slu0,000.
DIR. Edward McGlynn lectured In
the New York Academy of Music on
| the evening of the 10Th on ''Fhe Cross
| of the New Crusade" The building
was packed with his admirers, and bis
| reception was SO enthusiastic that he
was moved to tears" During his
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